Mike's an asshole. He cost himself more money than Leena ever could've sent him, because now TSM has no owner, no interested buyers, and a massive traffic dropoff to boot.
If you wanted to get rid of the board, you should've been classy and just said so, instead of making a last-ditch money grab while simultaneously being stupid enough to offer a 90 day money back guarantee on it.

What would New Jack's character be? Stabby-Stabby?
He wouldn't have a name, it'd just be 2 hours of Natural Born Killa blaring while New Jack tore apart the set and beat the shit out of everyone with anything not nailed down.
In the sequel he'd bring a nail puller and broaden his weaponry horizons by using everything previously nailed down.

Somebody must have realized that for that storyline to work out, Dreamer was going to have to actually win matches in order to earn his way into a #1 contender's match, let alone into a title match.
I don't think the dream was that farfetched, really. Not like he's asking for a Flair farewell, but to be 1 of 30 guys (easily could've put off Santino's 1 second appearance another year) in the Rumble and to have some sort of match (put him in MITB: ties into the storyline, he's versed enough in weapons to hold his own and he's willing to take a ridiculous bump for the sake of the match) at Wrestlemania.

Methinks marketing a movie at the 18-34 male demographic your company has essentially kicked to the curb in favor of marketing towards children, and then making the lead star the one person most 18-34 male WWE fans dislike most was probably the death knell for the movie.
May as well have made Teletubbies: The Movie starring New Jack. I don't know what kids watch these days.

Mike wanna be replied to Man Who Sold The World's topic in General Chat

10am's not ridiculous, agreed...I was scared they were going to drop an 8am on me. I told them I was available for an interview anytime today (well, Friday at the time) after 12pm, and then proceeded to get a particularly nasty bout of insomnia and somehow managed to roll out of bed at 3pm.
It particularly angers me because my mom has the exact same issue I do (except she's on prescription sleep meds and Benadryl just to get any sleep at all) and yet there's no compassion out of it, she just gives me shit for not having gotten up by mid-afternoon and then goes back to taking her nap.
The hours I manage to keep are absurd. I'm curious as to what hours I'd keep if I just went to bed when I actually was tired enough to sleep and getting up when I was actually awake enough to get up, as opposed to going to bed based on being bored enough to do so.

Mike wanna be replied to Man Who Sold The World's topic in General Chat

Interviews at 10am on a Monday when you didn't go to bed until 7am on Friday and have no intention of hitting the hay before 7am on Saturday.
If I didn't live with my parents I'd just stay up progressively later each night so I was awake from like 7pm straight through the interview at 10am, get home around noon, and then just guzzle caffeine like nobody's business to make it to a respectable sleep time that night, but nooooooo. I live with my parents who go by the old "Just get up earlier each day!" that works, but leads to being really fucking cranky and sleep-deprived every goddamn day you do it.
And of course with my luck I'll get up earlier each day, be up at 8am, have a nice interview, promptly fuck up my sleep schedule to the 6am-2pm timing I'm on now and then be asked back for a second interview so I have to repeat the process.

Speaking of AVGN, does anybody know if the DVDs he sells are any good? I've been debating picking one up for a while but from what I can tell they're just the regular videos on a DVD with a handful of stuff that got cut before being uploaded, and I can't justify $20 for a DVD with 30 seconds of "extras" as the only thing I'm really paying for as the rest of it is available for free.

Mike wanna be replied to Man Who Sold The World's topic in General Chat

You only lose sleep for one hour the one day you actually change the clocks, unless I'm an idiot and missing some vital facet of Alaskan life where the fact that it's 9:21pm instead of 8:21pm is a night ruiner.

Regarding Kennedy: Maybe he'd get tested less frequently than "every time I go to TV" if he showed up for TV more than once a month and didn't already have a strike against him (maybe two, I can't remember).
Regarding the "Coleminers": I did not know Michael Cole had that kind of charisma. He's just not suited for having somebody in his ear telling him what to say, apparently.
Regarding engineered cycles: The only reason WWE stopped marketing to kids & entered the Attitude era was because WCW was already in the Attitude era and were drubbing WWE in the ratings. WWE wasn't going to out-draw the 18-34 male market with kids & parents, so they adapted.
Regarding Rey/Punk as uncredible champions: Size is irrelevant, it's how you're booked. Santino was booked as an unstoppable Russian monster in OVW, for god's sake, and he's what, 5'10", 220-something?. Whatever overness you believe Koslov to have is not because of his size, it's because he kicks the shit out of people.

16 vs 18: 16 games is fine. If you want to get rid of 2 preseason games, then do it...just make the regular season start in mid-August and give every team an extra 2 weeks of byes during the season.
Same season length extension for added TV income, less wear & tear on the players.

Goodell's just overreacting to seeing his superstars get their shit ruined. It's obviously in the best interest of the league to not have anybody get injured for maximized marketing strategy....he's just taking a more overprotective approach to it...as opposed to Selig, who sees fans get clocked with flying chunks of maple wood and responds by handing out 1950s Duck and Cover pamphlets at the ball park.
Bettman, on the other hand, cost every fan, player & coach within his league 82 games and any chance at Lord Stanley's Cup, and that is un-fucking-forgivable.